Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...safe to prevent leaks to the press. The Secretary made sure that Reagan was kept abreast: three times he took his ad hoc policy review group to the White House to explain the salient details of Middle Eastern geopolitics. Reagan, who is instinctively pro-Israeli, was gradually persuaded to adopt a policy that was more even-handed toward the Palestinians...
Board Member Peter Drysdale, executive director of the Australia-Japan Research Center at the Australian National University, maintained that with a current inflation rate of only 1.7%, Japan is in a uniquely strong position to adopt a stimulative policy. Said he: "Japan can be seen as a kind of excessively cautious giant at this time, hesitating to expand its economy for fear of rekindling inflation...
...January 1973, the bishops were shaken by a second event, the Supreme Court decision allowing abortion on demand in most circumstances. This legal challenge to the age-old Catholic teaching that abortion is equivalent to murder forced the bishops to adopt a style of political propaganda and maneuver that, until then, had been more characteristic of liberal Protestants. For Catholicism, the abortion decision was a bold attack on human life and dignity. The radical change produced reflection upon other "life" issues, especially the arms race. Says Bernardin: "If you take a strong stand against abortion as the unjust taking...
Council vice president Michael Michael son said yesterday that he is confident the referendum will receive faculty attention He added. "It would be unusual for the faculty to adopt it as a resolution, but not inappropriate it's this cave which clearly shows an overwhelming majority of student opinion...
Harvard Food Services employees said yesterday they will adopt a more militant approach in upcoming contract negotiations to help secure higher wages and better job benefits...